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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12616001510437

Ethics application status

Not required

Date submitted

21/10/2016

Date registered

1/11/2016

Date last updated

1/11/2016

Type of registration

Retrospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

Real-life effectiveness of an online asthma education, monitoring, assessment and management tool - Giving Asthma Support to Patients (GASP)

Scientific title

Real-life effectiveness of an online asthma education, monitoring, assessment and management tool - Giving Asthma Support to Patients (GASP)

Secondary ID [1]

Nil known

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

U1111-1188-9372

Trial acronym

GASP

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

Asthma

Condition category

Condition code

Respiratory

Asthma

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Observational

Patient registry

True

Target follow-up duration

Target follow-up type

Years

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

This is a retropsective cohort study looking at GASP data collected during routine/standard care of patients with asthma from November 2008 till June 2016. All data are stored at Comprehensive Health Ltd (Waitemata Dirtrict Health Board) in a confidential secured database and only anonymised patient data are used for analysis.

The online GASP tool is used as part of the standard asthma assessment in priomary care. It includes standard asthma assessment questions and provides an online patient record. GASP aids the nurse/doctor in their assessment by providing prompts during the assessment process, aids with diagnosis and recommends treatment (medication) options including allergy avoidance. This assessment tool is used everytime the patient visits the practice with the patient consenting to the use of their data for unannoynomised data analysis at a future date. The GASP tool records all patients demographics, medical history, symptoms, lung function results, medication use, smoking hisytory, adherance and inhaler technique.

Intervention code [1]

Not applicable

Comparator / control treatment

A retrospective cohort study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of GASP. Data for patients aged 5-64 years in primary care (Waitemata district of Auckland) with uncontrolled asthma who had completed a minimum of two GASP assessments between 1 November 2008 and 16 June 2016 was extracted from a secure self-populating database. Outcome measures were compared between each patient’s visits 1 (November 2008) and 2 (June 2016) assessments. All patients first assessments was done in the month of November 2015 and their last/final assessment was completed in the month of June 2016.

Control group

Historical

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

Asthma exacerbation assessed from medical records/history file.

Timepoint [1]

First assessment (aka Visit 1) was conducted in the month of November 2008 for all patients and the final visit/assessment (aka Visit 2) was conducted in the month of June 2016 for all patients.

Primary outcome [2]

Hospital admissions assessed from medical records/history file.

Timepoint [2]